SpringOne 2GX 2011

Chicago, October 25-28, 2011

Matthew McCullough

Open Source Architect, Ambient Ideas

Matthew McCullough is an energetic 15 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is a trainer for GitHub.com, author of the Git Master Class series for O'Reilly, speaker at over 30 national and international conferences, author of three of the top 10 DZone RefCards, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group. His current topics of research center around project automation: build tools (Maven, Leiningen, Gradle), distributed version control (Git), Continuous Integration (Hudson) and Quality Metrics (Sonar). Matthew resides in Denver, Colorado with his beautiful wife and two young daughters, who are active in nearly every outdoor activity Colorado has to offer.



Blog

Git and GitHub Support in JetBrains YouTrack

Posted 2011-11-22 22:54:00.0

I recently had the chance to get a demo of JetBrains products’ Git integration and to meet some of the JetBrains development team in person at Øredev in Malmö, Sweden. I love seeing things integrate better with the GitHub API. It really is fantastmore »

Git at the NHJUG

Posted 2011-07-23 22:29:00.0

NHJUG I had the wonderful opportunity of being sponsored by No Fluff, Just Stuff Symposiums to speak at the New Hampshire JUG in Portsmouth on Tuesday. It was a lively crowd of 20 or so persons hosted by the excellent Ted Pennings, Matt Merrill, NHJUG, more »

OSCON gets Git

Posted 2011-06-01 21:18:00.0

I’m honored to have been accepted to co-present a Git workshop with Tim Berglund at OSCON 2011. It’ll be my first time at OSCON, and being the open source advocate that I am, I’m nothing short of thrilled to sit and attend a few sessiomore »
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Presentations

Gradle Workshop (Bring a Laptop)

Gradle. Another build tool? Come on!more »

Books

by John Ferguson Smart

Jenkins: The Definitive Guide Buy from Amazon
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  • Streamline software development with Jenkins, the popular Java-based open source tool that has revolutionized the way teams think about Continuous Integration (CI). This complete guide shows you how to automate your build, integration, release, and deployment processes with Jenkins—and demonstrates how CI can save you time, money, and many headaches.

    Ideal for developers, software architects, and project managers, Jenkins: The Definitive Guide is both a CI tutorial and a comprehensive Jenkins reference. Through its wealth of best practices and real-world tips, you'll discover how easy it is to set up a CI service with Jenkins.

    • Learn how to install, configure, and secure your Jenkins server
    • Organize and monitor general-purpose build jobs
    • Integrate automated tests to verify builds, and set up code quality reporting
    • Establish effective team notification strategies and techniques
    • Configure build pipelines, parameterized jobs, matrix builds, and other advanced jobs
    • Manage a farm of Jenkins servers to run distributed builds
    • Implement automated deployment and continuous delivery

by Tim Berglund and Matthew McCullough

Building and Testing with Gradle Buy from Amazon
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  • Build and test software written in Java and many other languages with Gradle, the open source project automation tool that’s getting a lot of attention. This concise introduction provides numerous code examples to help you explore Gradle, both as a build tool and as a complete solution for automating the compilation, test, and release process of simple and enterprise-level applications.

    Discover how Gradle improves on the best ideas of Ant, Maven, and other build tools, with standards for developers who want them and lots of flexibility for those who prefer less structure.

    • Use Gradle with Groovy, Clojure, Scala, and languages beyond the JVM, such as Flex and C
    • Get started building a simple Java program using Gradle's command line tooling and a small build script
    • Learn how to configure and construct tasks, Gradle's fundamental unit of build activity
    • Take advantage of Gradle's integration with Ant
    • Use Gradle to integrate with or transition from Maven, and to build software more cleanly
    • Perform application unit and integration tests using JUnit, TestNG, Spock, and Geb